Margherita Caffi
Teresa Margherita Volò Caffi (26 March 1648 – 20 September 1710) was an Italian painter of still lifes of flowers and fruit. She was born Margherita Volò, in Milan to Vincenzo Volò (1620-1671), known Vincenzino dei fiori (a still-life painter himself) and his wife Veronica Masoli (1631-1714). In 1668, she married with Ludovico Caffi (1644-1695) (also a still-life painter) in Cremona.
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Margherita Caffi
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- Name
- Teresa Margherita Volò Caffi
- Birth Name
- Teresa Margherita Volò
- Birthplace
- Milan, Duchy of Milan
- Died
- 1710 1648
- Field
- Painting
- Movement
- Still Life
- Spouse
- Ludovico Caffi
- Full name
- Margerita Volò.
- Nationality
- Italy.
- Occupation
- painter.
- Fields
- painting.
- Education
- Accademia di San Luca.
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Teresa Margherita Volò Caffi (26 March 1648 – 20 September 1710) was an Italian painter of still lifes of flowers and fruit. She was born Margherita Volò, in Milan to Vincenzo Volò (1620-1671), known Vincenzino dei fiori (a still-life painter himself) and his wife Veronica Masoli (1631-1714). In 1668, she married with Ludovico Caffi (1644-1695) (also a still-life painter) in Cremona.
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Margherita Caffi (1648–1710) was an Italian painter. Born Margerita Volò in Cremona, the painter died in Milan.
Margherita Caffi studied at Accademia di San Luca. The painter was a member of Accademia di San Luca and worked in Piacenza, Spain and Turin. Margherita Caffi lived in Cremona. The painter was active in painting.
Genres include floral and still life. Works by Margherita Caffi are held at Galleria Palatina, Kunsthistorisches Museum and Museo Civico Ala Ponzone, among others.
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Biography
She settled in Piacenza in 1670. She is known to have had at least four children. She died in Milan at the age of sixty. There are a number of unsigned paintings depicting "still lives with flowers", previously attributed to Francesco Guardi, known as Pseudo-Guradi Maestro di Fiori Guardeschi, but now postulated as likely the work of either Francesco Duramano, Carlo Henrici, Elisabetta Marchioni, and/or Margherita. • Illustration — Still-Life with a Vase of Flowers by Margherita Caffi, private collection
Margherita Caffi studied at Accademia di San Luca. The field of work recorded is painting. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are still life and floral. Places of work recorded in the authority are Cremona, Piacenza and Spain. Residence is recorded at Cremona. Work by Margherita Caffi is recorded in the collections of Museo del Prado, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Museo Civico Ala Ponzone and Pinacoteca del Castello Sforzesco.
Museo de Bellas Artes de Sevilla. Florero de Margarita Caffi (ca. 1700) una de las dos pinturas de ésta pintora que se exponen en este museo. Es donación de doña María Luisa Cortés Soto.
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• Name — Teresa Margherita Volò Caffi • Birth Name — Teresa Margherita Volò • Birthplace — Milan, Duchy of Milan • Died — 1710 1648 • Place of death — Milan, Duchy of Milan • Field — Painting • Movement — Still Life • Spouse — Ludovico Caffi • Illustration — Margherita Caffi (Milan 1650/51 - 1710) from Dr. Jeffrey Lant Collection
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Origins and background
The following is established of origins and background. Born in 1648 at Cremona. The record continues: margherita Caffi is recorded at birth as Margerita Volò. It is also recorded that margherita Caffi died in 1710 at Milan.
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Cremona.
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q1074555: Margherita Caffi
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- “Margherita Caffi”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- 1.Gaze, Delia. Dictionary of Women Artists: Artists, J-Z. Taylor & Francis. 339–340. 1997.
- 2.Wikiart org website
- 3.Christies lot 4697215.
- 4.Catalogo Beni Culturali, Still-life with Flowers at Galleria Rizzi, Sestri Levante near Genoa.
- 5.Bocchi, Gianluca; Bocchi, Ulisse. Margherita Caffi e l'atelier dei Vicenzini. Editore: Grafiche Step editrice, Parma. 2022. 9788878982574.
- 6.Silva, Andreia Santos. (2024) Por mãos femininas. Obras produzidas por mulheres na colecção de pintura de Frei Manuel do Cenáculo. Margherita Volò Caffi (Milão, 1648 - Milão, 1710): pittrice di fiori.
- 7.Cifani, Arabella. Le nature morte di Margherita Caffi e dell'atelier dei Vicenzini.
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